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Magic and Storytelling

credits
Marco Tempest, onformative, checksum5 et al.

the making of

TEAM

Created and produced by Marco Tempest
in cooperation with onformative and checksum5

Special thanks to David Britland for his amazing script, Michael Ricar for the music and sound design. Tebjan Halm for additional vvvv programming. Enrico Viola for the relentless OF sandboxing and prototyping.Jason Saragih for sharing his FaceTracker library. Tobias Beckwith for the voice cameos, Sherry and Matt for being amazed and to Steve Cohen for bringing Jean Robert-Houdin to life one last time.

it would be interesting to see this system used in a performance addressing the issue of focus (the relationship beween the two "stages", why the audience should concentrate on the screen and why they won´t). there´s a very interesting dynamic there, especially with him being an illusionist who is skilled in directing the audiences´focus to make magic tricks work. (but that would be a 60 minute talk, not a six i guess ;)
watching the performance as a video (=through the eyes of the TED-cameramen) adds another twist.

Congrats ! The combination of all those different effects is awesome !
I know vvvv has been challenged a lot for its problems to manage a show timeline base.. Nice to see that Ingolfs timeline manager can be pushed so far :) Very inspiring !